RE: [PHP] Scheduled event

Ah, a holy grail of PHP: regular events. My advice, schedule a cron job for everyday at 8am for lynx to go to a certain page. On that page, find the current date and parse it down to the mm-dd-yyyy. Then query your db versus that information and voila :) Now you could say just "Happy Birthday, Torkil!" or be spiffy and subtract the years and say: "Happy 85th Birthday, Torkil!" Of course that would require more code, as you need to make the distinction between x1st (like 21st) or z2nd (like 52nd) or x3rd (93rd) and the rest with xth (4th, 5th, 6th and so on). :) - k -----Original Message----- From: Torkil Johnsen [mailto:torkil.johnsen@stud.hibo.no] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 7:03 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Scheduled event Hello... I've set up a members database, and I want to make a useless function that sends out email to people when they have their birthdays. For example: My birthday is feb 20th. So at precisely 8am that day, an email is sent out to congratulate me. Anyone know how to make this work in PHP? I am guessing I might have to make use of something other than php as well, eh? Sincerely, Torkil -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net